Film releasing on January 8 brings Amitabh Bachchan and Farhan Akhtar together on screen for the first time

Filmmaker Bejoy Nambiar’s upcoming drama Wazir, starring Amitabh Bachchan, Farhan Akhtar and Aditi Rao Hydari in lead roles will release on January 8 next year.
The trailer of the film will be out on Wednesday and will be attached with the twenty-fourth James Bond film, Spectre, which hits screens in India on November 20.
This will be the first time that Amitabh and Farhan would be seen sharing screen space together.
While Amitabh, 73, essays the role of a Kashmiri Pandit in Wazir, Farhan, 41, will be seen as as an Anti-Terrorist Squad officer.
Co-produced by Vidhu Vinod Chopra, Aquib Khan and Rajkumar Hirani, Wazir is written by Chopra along with Abhijat Joshi.
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